Word: interest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lynch, have taken out nomination papers as well. Former Lieutenant Gov. Kerry M. Healey ’82, a prominent Mass. Republican, had also considered entering the race but decided against it on Sunday night, saying that such a campaign “would not be in the best interest of [her] family at this time.” Nomination papers for party candidates must be submitted for certification of signatures by Oct. 20, and the special election filling Kennedy’s Senate seat will take place on Jan. 19. State party primaries will be held...
...very honest, and didn’t seem like anyone had an agenda beyond bringing the facts forward,” said Arun A. Viswanath ’13, who studied in the West Bank before coming to Harvard. “Both have the same interest in mind.” Ari R. Hoffman ’11 said he appreciated the passionate but cordial dialogue that stayed focused on the substantive issues of American policy in the Middle East. “It was good to see such opposite ends of the political spectrum unite around the love...
...this economic difference, a big ethical distinction exists between tampering with the mortgage market and with the life insurance market. In an increasingly interconnected business world in which the financial industry is never more than a BlackBerry’s call away from the health insurance industry, conflicts of interest are bound to arise. As the two legislative battles of the summer—financial regulation and health-care reform—have shown, the two industries are alike in their greed, ambition, and self-interest. Collusion is in the best interest of both sides: Insurance companies are encouraged...
...failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more exposure, which he's happy to provide - on cable news or through his well-read blog for the nonpartisan public-interest group the Center for Media and Democracy...
...first place, the DPJ's interest in finding a new balance to the alliance - for which read, a situation in which Japan is less automatically subservient to the U.S. - is not just a matter of Hatoyama's speeches. Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran politician man who cobbled the DPJ together and who is bound to influence policy as the party's general-secretary, has argued for decades that Japan should be a "normal" country, with its own foreign and domestic policy priorities, set in relation to its own interests...